Leadership
We all know the people on the television, in the newspapers and so on who are charismatic and successful. How about this though?Put away your charisma: the best leaders are quiet, humble and decidedly unglamorous.
Joseph Badaracco provides us with that insight. He also says that we don't need another [management] hero. He goes on to say that 'Your firm's seemingly ordinary, quiet leaders, the people working inconspicuously, deep within the organisation, achieve extraordinary results ... They:
buy time to make key decisions
patiently pick their battles
bend rules
master the art of compromise
The sum of their many small deeds is a "thousand times stronger than the acts of those who receive wide public recognition".'
See the article We don't need another hero in the September 2001 edition of the Harvard Business Review for more from Badaracco.
Duncan Williamson
posted by Duncan Williamson @ 10:15 AM
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